Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

Johannesburg water crisis: It’s time to break the municipal monopoly on service delivery – AfriForum

ByAfriForum 13/10/202613/10/2026

AfriForum believes that the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality’s consideration of involving the private sector in water supply is an acknowledgement that the existing model for municipal service delivery is failing residents.

According to the organisation, residents should not be held hostage by failing municipal monopolies when other, viable alternatives exist.

Furthermore, AfriForum believes that communities are forced to rely on dysfunctional municipal systems and have limited freedom to consider other alternatives.

According to Lambert de Klerk, AfriForum’s manager for Environmental Affairs, competent private and community-driven institutions should be allowed to help deliver essential services, thereby creating space for innovation, competition, and greater community control.

“The real question is no longer whether alternative service delivery models are needed, but rather how quickly effective solutions can be implemented,” concludes De Klerk.